How to do a remote administration of Windows from OSX
This week I was selected for a new mission: help somebody with his Windows administration. The first I thought was using a VNC server and connect to it from my comfortable home.
1st Round
Well, using VNC with spanish Internet connections is an utopia: It was so slow that I couldn't do anything.
2nd Round
The next I thought was using Microsoft's remote admin tool. It worked! And it was really simple in a few steps:
- Activate Remote Admin from your Windows Settings. In my case: My Computer propierties, in the advanced tab.
- Create an administrator account, protected by password (unless you protect it with a password, you couldn't do anything).
- Download Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection (for Windows or Mac), and install it on the client machine.
- The only thing you'll need to access to the server machine, is the username credentials and the public IP.
Personnally I prefered to set up a DynDNS account, because I didn´t want to look for the public IP each time ;)
What I want to do now is to admin a Windows or Mac machine from GNU/Linux and vice versa :D
